Training Objectives

Administrators: Setting up a bioinformatics resource to support teaching and research. Maintenance and administration guidelines.

Training Goals

To conduct introductory lectures in bioinformatics for biologists and molecular biologists with little or
no prior experience in bioinformatics.

To demonstrate the use of bioinformatcs tools and applications commonly encountered in a typical molecular
biology laboratory.

To practise participants on the usage of selected bioinformatcs tools and applications.

To conduct introductory lectures on how to plan a curriculum, coordinate an undergraduate course module or a postgraduate
workshop on bioinformatics and provision infrastructure and bioinformatics resources.

To conduct introductory lectures on how to build, operate, manage and maintain computational resources for supporting bioinformatics.